{"product_id":"9780894960086","title":"B-Trees for Basics: Create Your Own Lightning-Fast Database","description":"The \"heart and soul\" of almost all relational database programs is the B-Tree algorithm. In fact may programmers describe a relational database as a B-Tree program with supporting code that simply delivers the query to the B-Tree or displays the results from the B-Tree.\u003cp\u003eThe beauty of this book is that it describes in great detail with lots of diagrams and charts exactly how a B-Tree works. It is one of the clearest explanations on the subject existing and is extremely useful for any person or classroom that is investigating databases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe number of illustrations in this book are too numerous to list. Diagrams are given showing every major step taken in writing a B-Tree. The diagrams also show exactly how searches are done. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlow charts are also presented showing how the B-Tree algorithm works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTables are presented showing the performance of the B-Tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCode is listed for an entire B-Tree program written in simple DOS based BASIC and it is inspected and laboriously explained line-by-line.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ross Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016319385840,"sku":"9780894960086","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780894960086_p0.jpg?v=1763856864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780894960086","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}